Emma Fielding

Emma Fielding is an English actress, born in Catterick, who trained at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama after briefly studying law at Cambridge University. She worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre, and gained critical notice in 1993 in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at the National Theatre, creating the role of Thomasina. She played Agnes at the Almeida Theatre in The School for Wives, winning an Ian Charleson Award, and later earned the Dame Peggy Ashcroft Award as best actress for John Ford's The Broken Heart. Fielding made her Broadway debut in Noël Coward's Private Lives in 2003, a role that brought her a Theatre World Award and an Olivier nomination. Her screen and radio work includes Cranford, Death in Paradise, DCI Banks, EastEnders, and a voice role in Doctor Who, as well as BBC radio productions such as Rock 'n' Roll.